Research Recommendations (848)

Create a graphic-creativity measurement tool adapted specifically to the characteristics of graphic pieces produced by people with Down syndrome.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, design psychologists

Domain:

Creativity Assessment / Inclusive Graphic Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a concrete action plan for the labor inclusion of people with Down syndrome within the graphic creative sector.

Audience:

Employers, policy makers, educators, NGOs

Domain:

Employment Inclusion / Creative Industries

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the current needs of the graphic creative sector and identify how people with Down syndrome could contribute to meeting them.

Audience:

Researchers, employers, inclusion specialists

Domain:

Sector Needs / Inclusive Employment

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Replicate the study with other participant groups, such as people with autism, to compare inclusive creative potentials and diversify the knowledge base.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, inclusion specialists

Domain:

Inclusive Creativity Research / Comparative Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate male wearer perspectives in order to test, extend, and possibly reshape the theory of wearer–clothing relationships.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion theorists, design educators

Domain:

Fashion Theory / Wearer–Clothing Relationships

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study wearer–clothing relationships in non-consumerist societies in order to derive lessons for contemporary consumption societies.

Audience:

Researchers, anthropologists, fashion-systems scholars

Domain:

Fashion Systems / Cross-Cultural Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Explore wearer–clothing relationships with multiples of the same item, such as socks, underwear, basic tops, cardigans, and well-fitting trousers, to test whether the theory changes in these cases.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion-design scholars, apparel specialists

Domain:

Clothing Practices / Multiples

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Systematically verify whether sound wearer–clothing relationships reduce consumption driven by perceived needs and by wants.

Audience:

Researchers, policy makers, sustainability scholars

Domain:

Consumption Reduction / Sustainable Fashion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop theory on people’s relationships with other designed, overconsumed products in order to extend the thesis beyond clothing to material culture more broadly.

Audience:

Researchers, product designers, sustainability scholars

Domain:

Material Culture / Overconsumed Products

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the role of communities as supportive social arrangements for wearer–clothing relationships and as a grassroots scope of action for design.

Audience:

Researchers, community organizers, designers

Domain:

Communities / Grassroots Design Action

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore how upbringing shapes relationships with clothing and how design can nudge younger wearers’ capabilities and practices.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, youth-focused designers

Domain:

Upbringing / Youth Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use participatory design to involve children directly in the diagnosis, planning, and co-creation of play spaces and play artefacts, especially in urban margins.

Audience:

Designers, researchers, community organizations, public agen...

Domain:

Participatory Design with Children / Urban Margins

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and apply devices and guiding principles that support children’s participation in thinking about places and playful artefacts in cities, especially in socially marginalized areas.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, urban designers

Domain:

Participation Frameworks / Child-Centered Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Return knowledge to participating communities through accessible outputs such as books and other visual materials that communicate results co-produced with children.

Audience:

Researchers, communities, educators

Domain:

Knowledge Return / Community Design Research

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Use cartographic and visual synthesis tools to support designers and researchers in understanding children’s participation in planning playful spaces and artefacts.

Audience:

Design peers, researchers, planners

Domain:

Cartography / Participatory Design Tools

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Focus future design and policy attention on children living in urban margins, where the right to play and the right to the city are often weakened by spatial segregation and lack of public provision.

Audience:

Researchers, planners, policy makers, activists

Domain:

Right to Play / Right to the City

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the digitalization of the fashion industry and its implications for design practice and design education.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion educators, industry stakeholders

Domain:

Digital Transformation / Fashion Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the mechanisms of Artificial Intelligence and their applicability to specific areas of design, especially within fashion-design processes.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, AI specialists

Domain:

AI in Fashion Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate communication with robotized production lines as part of the evolving relationship between fashion designers, digital tools, and industrial manufacturing.

Audience:

Researchers, production engineers, fashion designers

Domain:

Industry 4.0 / Fashion Manufacturing

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Study the role of the designer in the market of digital co-creation, where design activity is increasingly distributed across platforms, tools, and collaborative actors.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, platforms, educators

Domain:

Digital Co-Creation / Professional Roles

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore the new roles of the fashion designer in virtual environments, including the impact of immersive and digitally mediated spaces on project methods and outcomes.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion designers, educators

Domain:

Virtual Environments / Fashion Design Roles

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Present the proposed textile-design teaching-learning model to Portuguese higher-education institutions with design programs in order to assess receptivity to implementation and identify the logistical and institutional adjustments needed.

Audience:

Researchers, higher-education institutions, curriculum leade...

Domain:

Higher Education Policy / Textile Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop full curricular sheets for the course units included in the proposed bachelor's degree in Textile Design.

Audience:

Curriculum designers, educators, accreditation bodies

Domain:

Curriculum Design / Textile Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Establish collaboration partnerships between academia, industry, and community in order to support shared teaching strategies and build an excellent textile-design education ecosystem.

Audience:

Educators, industry actors, communities, students

Domain:

Collaborative Ecosystems / Textile Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement and monitor the proposed textile-design teaching-learning model, including mechanisms for long-term impact assessment on the creative textile industry and on students' professional development.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, industry stakeholders, students

Domain:

Model Implementation / Impact Evaluation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium